It all started with a simple glance. Thinking back on it, it wasn't quite so simple, as the emotions that pushed and pulled between those sapphire eyes had been anything but simple. KuroFai. lemon. For the autumn challenge on Livejournal's kurofai comm.

It all started with a
simple glance. Thinking back on it, it wasn't quite so simple, as the
emotions that pushed and pulled between those sapphire eyes had been
anything but simple. The ninja knew that he shouldn't have seen the
gaze that had been directed at him, but at that moment his own
swirlings of foreign and long forgotten emotions began to fill him.

It was after the incident
that Kurogane had noticed Fai's gaze on him more and more, and the
ninja had even begun to feel his own gaze directed towards the mage.
The dance they had suddenly started with stolen looks continued for
several worlds. At times they locked eyes with each other, and it was
beginning to happen more frequently, and time slowed. Red and blue
clashed together lost in the other, melding and molding until nothing
else mattered.

Another day passed,
another battle neither won nor lost between the dragon and phoenix.
That day Kurogane had been offered a new challenge. Fai had lingered.
His fingers had stayed a little too long against the other man's arm.
With that small touch, Kurogane had accepted Fai's challenge.

Time passed swiftly, and
the group had arrived in yet another peaceful world. It was here
that things escalated and both found that they didn't care. Kurogane
had taken the intiative, and it was the first time he had offered
something. He had placed a hand over the other's much longer than was
neccesary to get the other to stop poking at him. Fai's mask had
fallen shortly, quickly replaced with a smile and an innuendo.
Kurogane let it go, the feeling he didn't want to name swelling in
his chest. Garnet met sapphire, something new swirled in their
depths, something that had the potiential to be both beautiful and
lethal.

It had been a month since
Kurogane had first looked into Fai's eyes. He had come to terms with
the thing that rose and fell within him every time the other man was
near. The battle hardened ninja had become fascinated with the blood
soaked mage. He had come to accept that the man enraptured him. The
shinobi had already admitted that he lusted after the wizard, that
the blonde had haunted his dreams and his nightmares. The swordsman
had even seen the blue eyes glazed with their own lust at him.

Two months and Kurogane
could take no more. Fai had slowly worn him down, had managed without
the use of words or force to tear Kurogane apart, and the ninja had
let him. They knew many things about each other, and without
speaking, both had realized what the other wanted, felt, needed, but
they also realized what letting loose those desires would entail.

Three months and when they
were finally alone Kurogane took action. Once the kids and manjuu had
left, he had grabbed hold of Fai and crushed his lips against the
others. The electricity that was there before had magnified, letting
loose a storm that had no desire to be contained. Slim fingers
embedded themselves in ebony locks, calloused fingers held onto sharp
hips. Teeth knocked against each other as tongues invaded and
caressed eachother. Only the need for oxygen and the burning of their
lungs pulled them apart.

Time moved swiftly.
Searing glances, seductive touches, and secret kisses were shared and
savoured between the swordsman and wizard.

"Things have changed
since when we began." Kurogane, looked at Fai as they pulled
apart from another kiss.

"Yes, but we're
adults and we knew what would happen if things changed."

"Does this mean you
want us to continue? Because if thing's do, you know what will
happen?"

Ocean eyes were cast
downwards. It was true, the glances they had given eachother, at
first, were simply mis-placed wants and needs that they had, but with
time, always with time, their simple lust's had mutated into
something genuine. Fai looked up and kissed swollen lips again.

Four months passed by,
happily. The dragon and phoenix had come to terms with the raging
storms that had consumed them so long ago, and now they felt solace,
comfort, peace with the other. It was a time like this that the
unspoken feeling that had replaced their wants, decided to emerge
with full force.

Moon-light shone through
sheer curtains. Neither mage nor ninja could sleep, and it all
started with a heated touch. Kisses were shared and flames of
something more were ignited. Butterfly kisses rained down up
alabaster flesh. Kurogane found himself over Fai, lips locking, as
gangly arms drapped across broad shoulders. As their passions
intensified, nails scraped down the shinobi's back, hot trails left
on tan skin. Clothes were shed, too tight and uncomfortable to bear
anymore.

"Beautiful." The
first word uttered, shattering the dream like state.

The ninja made his way to
the mage's arousal, engulfing it, preparing the smaller body for what
would happen, trying to give the other as much pleasure as he could
before the pain began. Fingers enter the blondes body, prodding and
relaxing. Fai gasps, somewhere betwen a moan and mewl.

This was it, once they did
this, they could never go back to the way things once were. A caring
gaze, a moment of hesitation. Fai nodded, and Kurogane seemed less
tense. With a gentle push, Kurogane sheathed himself fully into Fai's
willing body. Tears sprang to life, and were immediately extinguished
by fiery kisses. The mage relaxed, his body accomidating the ninja's
size. The wizard legs encircled the shinobi's waist. Shallow thrusts,
mixed the pleasure and pain.

"I love you."
Three words, that spoke volumes.

Kurogane stopped his
movements. The sensation of the intense heat that surrounded him, had
been dulled by the words that spilled from those kissed lips. Fai had
taken the plunge, had left himself naked and vulnerable. He had
opened and exposed himself utterly, completely. He was the one brave
enough to voice the feelings that had swelled inside both their
chests, the emotions that had left them silent for so long.

"I love you too."
Kurogane gave himself to Fai.

The
usual frown settles into a smirk. The smile seems a bit more genuine.
Kurogane continues his previous movements. A hand holding onto a pale
leg, the other clenched into sheets next to blonde hair. Wet skin
slid against each other, Kurogane's pace increasing as he embedded
himself further into Fai's pliant body. The mage's hand's pulled the
ninja's face towards him, and a blistering kiss was shared
dominating, loving.

Heat
pooled into their stomachs. Muffled cries, Kurogane wrapped a hand
around Fai's dripping need, pumping in time with his thrusts. Fai
screamed, forgetting about the kids and Mokona who slept next door.
Red cheeks, jerking hips. The mage raised his hips, meeting his
lover.

Fai
arched, driving Kurogane's member further into his body. He climaxed,
his essence spilling between the other's fingers. The shinobi moaned
somewhere between a groan and a gasp, the wizard's inner walls
constricting around him as he reached his on orgasm, filing the
wizard with his seed.

They
stayed, in their intimate embrace, a bit longer, time returning to
normal, as a cool night breze washed over them from the open window,
their sweat-covered bodies cooling rapidly. Harsh pants were the only
sounds heard in the room. Kurogane pulled out of the small body,
falling heavily onto the mattress. Lean arms pulled the blonde close,
nose burying itself in damp locks of gold. Fai grabbed a large hand,
holding it up in the half light, kissing it tenderly.

It
all ended with a not so simple confession. They had crossed that line
they had both feared for so long, and in doing so found something
both had needed, wanted. The ninja had found his strength, the mage
had found acceptance. They had discovered happiness. And now whenever
blue locked onto red, something enchanting would pass through them.

Time
passed quietly and softly.

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